Tag: Dax Raymond

Browns waive Greg Senat from I.R., hold tryouts for 5 free agents

The Browns waived OT Greg Senat off injured reserve and held official tryouts for five free agents

The Cleveland Browns were busy working on the bottom of the roster this week.

The team waived offensive tackle Greg Senat from the injured reserve list. Senat was placed on I.R. prior to the initial 53-man roster being established, ending his 2021 chances with Cleveland. He suffered a knee injury. Senat is now free to sign with another NFL team and play in 2021.

The Browns also held tryouts for five free agents.

  • DT Andrew Brown
  • TE Miller Forristal
  • DT Isaiah Mack
  • CB Bryan Mills
  • TE Dax Raymond

None of the auditions resulted in immediate signings with the team.

Packers added former Bears TE to practice squad

The Packers signed Dax Raymond and released Nakia Griffin-Stewart from the practice squad on Tuesday.

The Green Bay Packers didn’t make a deal before the trade deadline, but the team did add a former Chicago Bears tight end to the practice squad.

The Packers announced the signing of tight end Dax Raymond, who replaces tight end Nakia Griffin-Stewart on the practice squad

Undrafted out of Utah State, Raymond – who played with Packers first-round pick Jordan Love in college – signed with the Bears in April of 2019. He spent part of his rookie season on Chicago’s practice squad but was waived in April in 2020. This summer, Raymond spent training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Raymond (6-5, 246) has never played in a regular season game.

At Utah State, he caught 72 passes for 873 yards and three touchdowns. He was a two-time All-Mountain West selection. In 2018, while playing with Love, Raymond caught 27 passes for 345 yards and two scores.

At the combine, Raymond ran the 40-yard dash in 4.73 seconds, hit 32″ in the vertical and finished the three-cone drill in 7.15 seconds.

Pittsburgh Steelers waive one tight end and sign another

The Steelers made a pre-training camp roster move on Monday.

Moments after the Steelers waived tight end Christian Scotland-Williamson on Monday, they signed former Bears TE Dax Raymond. Raymond is an undrafted Utah State who was part of the Bears 2019 practice squad.

As part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway program, Scotland-Williamson, a former rugby star, has been on the Steelers practice squad since 2018.

Christian shared in an interview with Steelers.com that his parents had both contracted COVID-19. He was waived with a non-football injury designation.

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Bears waive TE Dax Raymond

The Bears trimmed their tight end group from 10 to 9 players with the release of undrafted free agent Dax Raymond on Monday.

When the 2020 NFL Draft concluded on Saturday evening, the Chicago Bears nearly had enough tight ends to field an entire offense following their selection of tight end Cole Kmet. The team had 10 players on their roster, but general manager Ryan Pace has already begun the process of pairing the position down.

On Monday morning, the team announced they were waiving tight end Dax Raymond, leaving nine players in the position group.

Raymond was signed as an undrafted free agent just one year ago and was a favorite to make the team considering the uncertainty at the tight end position. The former Utah State standout didn’t appear in a game for the Bears after getting injured during the preseason. He joined the practice squad in October before signing a futures deal with the team following the regular season finale in December.

Raymond’s release leaves nine tight ends on the roster for now, including Kmet, Ben Braunecker, Darion Clark, Jimmy Graham, Demetrius Harris, Jesper Horsted, J.P. Holtz, Eric Saubert, and Adam Shaheen.

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Roster Moves: Bears sign 9 players to reserve/future contracts

The Bears inked nine players that finished the season on their practice squad to reserve/future contracts on Monday.

The Chicago Bears signed nine players that finished the season on their practice squad to reserve/future contracts on Monday.

The group of players consisted of receivers Reggie Davis, Thomas Ives and Alex Wesley; tight end Dax Raymond; offensive linemen Dino Boyd and Sam Mustipher; linebacker James Vaughters; and defensive backs Xavier Crawford and Stephen Denmark.

Denmark was a seventh-round draft selection from 2019, but he didn’t appear in any regular-season games for the Bears. The lone Bear from the list to appear in a regular-season game was Vaughters, who filled in for the Bears that struggled with injuries to their linebacking corp. He registered three tackles in three games against the Eagles, Lions and Rams.

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